Shakey Images

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1967

August 21, 1967

August 21, 1967
In the large version of this image, you can see the "cat whiskers", fine wires that were used to detect bumping into objects.

November 17, 1967

By August 1967, Shakey was operational. You can see small differences between the August and November images. The attachment of the umbilical cord is different. In the November pictures, there were some additional fine wires or string around Shakey's head.

The undated pictures were apparently taken between November 1967 and November 1968. The umbilical cord had been modified since August 1967, but the radio connection was not yet installed. The drive motor housing had been changed to the same as in November 1968.

Other seminal research was ongoing at the same time.
Around the corner, on the same floor, in the Augmentation Center lab, Doug Englebart was
experimenting with video screens and a computer pointing device called a "mouse".

Date not recorded

Tom Garvey and Helen Chan (Wolf) operate Shakey.

1983

In 1983, Shakey was donated to the Computer History Museum (then in Boston).
Some of the people that worked on Shakey gathered to say goodbye on August 18, 1983.